Archibald mccorvie



A McOORVIE. Tug Clips.

No. 232,532. I Patented Sept. 21, 18 80.

Inventor: Witnesses:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AROHIBALD MGGORVIE, OF LUOKNOW, ONTARIO, CANADA.

TUG-CLIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 232,532, dated.September 21, 1880. Application filedfl'anuary 26, 1880.:

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARCHIBALD MOCORVIE, a citizen of Ontario, residingat Lucknow, in the county of Bruce and Province of Ontario, Canada, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Tug-Clips and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to whichit appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to letters and figures of reference markedthereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to an improved tugclip for hames or horse-collarsof that class in which the tug-strap is secured in a pintle-plate havinga removable pintle; and it has for its object to provide forautomatically securing the pintle in place. This object I attain by themeans illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1represents a front view of a horse collar with my improvement attachedthereto, and Fig. 2 a detached view of the removable pintle.

The letter A indicates a horse-collar of any description, and B theimproved tug-clip, consisting of a pintle-plate, O, secured to said and,

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, 1'S

Atug-cli p consisting of a pintle-plate adapted to be secured to ahorse-collar and a removable pintle provided with an annular recess atits lower end, and a spring connected to the collar and adapted toengage the recess in the pintle, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

AROHIBALD MCOORVIE.

Witnesses:

JUNIUs TEN EYoK, J. B; SWEETLAND.

